A nearby galaxy is behaving strangely—and now scientists know why. The Small Magellanic Cloud’s stars move in chaotic ...
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability ...
It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star.
Prime Video's most celebrated sci-fi original, Night Sky, starring J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek, was shockingly cancelled.
The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...
Scientists have identified 45 Earth-like exoplanets that are the strongest known candidates for hosting extraterrestrial life.
“Project Hail Mary,” the movie adaptation to Andy Weir’s 2021 novel about a science teacher attempting to save the Earth from sun-eating microbes, was released in March 2026 to stellar ratings from ...
As heat exposure curbs outdoor activity, study warns of worsening lifestyle diseases, premature deaths and stressed health ...